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• Commented on Conscious "coma man"'s words seemingly delivered via discredited "facilitated communications" technique
  When I saw this story, I immediately thought of this Frontline story from 1993, "Prisoners of Silence" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3439467496200920717...
• Commented on Happy birthday, LSD
  Somebody has to knit a steampunk Timothy Leary happy birthday mask with dangling Cthulhu tentacles to celebrate....
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  We also heard leading up to Y2K, that much of the software *couldn't* be fixed, because it was so brittle, trying to fix it would create worse bugs; or, that there was no source code even available. Did any of...
• Commented on Everything but the Game: Behind the Sketchpad of Amanita's point and click <em>Machinarium</em>
  Hopefully this thing will be a free torrent to try out soon. 20 bucks is ridiculous....
• Commented on Yoko Ono Embraces Creative Commons? O Yes!
  Someday she'll be gone...
• Commented on French fry coated hot dog on a stick
  That's called a "Spicy McHaggis" around here...
• Commented on Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley
  I thought this was a joke. It looks like an old picture of Brooke Shields' head cropped onto a distorted body....
• Commented on Asgarda
  This is so perfectly tuned for BoingBoing you have to assume someone wanted to time how long it would take from the publication of the story to its appearance on here....
• Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
  "Relentless does not equal profound." There's a lot more to the book than simply relentless violence. The Road is a walk through the park compared to Blood Meridian (which is also being adapted into a movie.)...
• Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
  The trailer actually looks a bit more upbeat and colorful than the book. The book barely touched on what caused the devastation. The beginning of the trailer looked like a scene from The Day After Tomorrow which is disappointing. Hopefully...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  Hipsters are people too....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  "Prince, you have disgraced Islam; I will see you in Hell," said the ass-bomber semicolonically....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  > "No one will be able to know the type of this device or the way it was detonated." Hey Prince, pull my finger......
• Commented on Man awarded $63k for Ketamine "overdose" at hospital
  If you don't mention that you're an atheist in your comments, one is left to assume that you're not....
• Commented on Banksy mural accidentally painted over
  Almost all wall murals would benefit by being painted over. They almost universally suck....
• Commented on Police Women of Broward County takes reality cop TV to new depths
  Does "TLC" still stand for "The Learning Channel" or that they finally dropped that pretense altogether?...
• Commented on Fresh Greens: You don't need helicopters to kill wolves
  An early death, whether self-engineered or not, is perhaps the ultimate sacrifice one can make for the environment....
• Commented on Cardboard Tube Fighting League comes to NYC, Philly
  Remember when saying you lived in NYC had a certain cachet? Now it's "Stuff White People Like" Land....
• Commented on Desperate-to-leave LinkedIn users rename accounts "delete delete delete"
  Having a Facebook account is like owning a Zune...
• Commented on Cantina song from Star Wars on a Chapman Stick
  #4 You've heard it, you probably just didn't realize it. Tony Levin of King Crimson (2.0) used it on either albums in the early 80's....
• Commented on Desperate-to-leave LinkedIn users rename accounts "delete delete delete"
  R.I.P.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8AcEYTEFY...
• Commented on Honduran coup is the first successful military coup d'etat in the region since the Cold War ended
  Zach de la Rocha will be delivering an achingly earnest denouncement of the coup on MTV at 11:00am EST....
• Commented on Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents
  "Well, it looks like Twitter may have had someone pushing for it not to go down last night, during peak Iranian hours: the U.S. State Department According to a CNN blog post, the U.S. government is connecting with Twitter and...
• Commented on Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents
  Don't be ridiculous. They don't want to see Iran in anarchy. They want a well-functioning, US-friendly, capitalistic environment. A good base of operations for themselves and U.S. business interests. Mousavi fits the bill perfectly....
• Commented on Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents
  At want point are people going to wake up to the fact that Mousavi is backed by the CIA who want to see Ahmadinejad gone? Mousave is a Bush/Cheney stooge. The crackdown is immoral and reprehensible but it should have...
• Commented on Stephenie Meyer vs. 4chan -- XKCD
  XKCD : 4Chan :: Bruno : Eminem...
• Commented on Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030
  Kurzweil and Vinge always seem to predict a date that will allow them to sneak in under the wire....
• Commented on Christian fundamentalists hijack Singaporean feminist group
  This is why democracy never works. Too many of the wrong kinds of people always show up to vote and ruin everything....
• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
  While these protests were pretty lame, for shear lameness nothing will ever beat Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine on their "Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium" album when he calls out to the sea of white...
• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
  I love the feigned expressions of "outrage", as if having the police get physical isn't exactly what they were hoping for. For many of the protesters getting a "battle scar" just enhances their CV. Dressing up like some jackass or...